Greeting readers of fan fiction! So I realized as I red some of my resent chapters I've been a little lax so I tried to up the descriptions and emotion. I hope it's better than I've been doing because I was really disappointed in myself. I hope you enjoy it! As always let me know what you think.
My thanks go out to!
WW ^ I'm working on the Knives Meryl moments. I didn't know they would become so popular. So expect more in up coming chapters.
Morlana ^ I love the Vash/ Marvel purring but I wrote it so I had better like. I know Marvel's well for lack of better word a bitch but she's soft under it all. The K/M things about to blow up and get really interesting so stay tuned.
swtrkgurlz ^ Vash is really in La La land right now but he's about to get a dose of reality in this chapter. Whether he will take it or not is another story.
Arika* ^ Thank you for giving me the so needed love I'm starting to feel it a little more. Just for you I put some K/M in this chapter…well and because it was in the plot.
Lunatic Jedi ^ Oh I love evil schemes! They're great…Maybe I should put one in the story! Wait a minute! I always love getting reviews form you! It makes me happy.!
Jill ^ I try to get better as I go along. This is my first Trigun story so it is one big experiment.
Nuclear Pudding ^ What would a chapter be without a review from Nuclear? It would be a sad, sad chapter! I hope I don't have any of those any time soon.
So I got more Love then usual but some of my regulars were missing! Hey come back and read I miss YOU!
Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun! Because If I did Wolfwood and Legato would still be alive!
Kaleidoscope
Chapter 12: Confession
"Hey Marvel this telegram come for you!" Vash waved the paper envelope in the air.
"Give it to me you ass!" She snatched it away form the overexcited out law only to find the seal had already been broken. "Did you my letter!?"
"If I did will I pay with Pain?" With a growl Marvel flopped down on the bed next to him.
"I don't even know why I put up with you!"
"It's my charisma and charm." His voice was smooth like silk and he gave a dangerously hansom smile.
At first she blushed at his attics, her was just adorable. She realized her shown weakness and grabbed the back of his head thrusting his whole body towards the floor.
"Tough love is painful. You know the longer I know you the more pissed off you seem to be."
"Hush I trying to read this." Vash crawled back on the bed and sat down next to her. She fallowed the lines with her eyes reading every word. "It's just a letter From the Taylor family. They herd about my attack yesterday and they want me to come back to the house to make sure I'm ok. When ever they find out something happened to me they want me to come home to make sure that I'm fine."
"Home" His eyebrow rose. "I thought this was your home?"
"It is. I guess it's like when you move away from you parents. Your home is home but so is theirs." With big glossy eyes Vash Smiled at the glaring woman. "What's that look for?"
"They're your family and you love them!"
"Oh stop looking at me like that! Come on stop it I'm serious!" The look on his face finally made Marvel give int. She began to roll with laughter. "Come on Vash I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts!"
"I know isn't it great!" He fallowed her lead and the two became laughing fools.
After a small knock at the door Nicholas peek his head through to see what all the commotion was about. "Hey what's going on in here?!"
"We're going to visit Marvel's family!"
"Yeah we're…we're what? You're not going with me!" Marvel jumped up looming over Vas with a menacing face.
"Sure I am! Who else is going to protect you?"
"Protect me? If you haven't noticed I CAN PROTECT MYSELF! Now she was down right furious.
"Well then I'll go to protect everyone else form you. I'll start packing!" Vash leapt up and rushed picking up his things.
Marvel sighed ad looked at Wolfwood leaning up against the wall. "He only hears what he wants to doesn't he"
"Yep, he's always been that way."
Vash continued to zip around collecting thing he might need on his trip. "Come on Marvel don't you need to pack?" He yanked his female companion by the arm pulling her with him urging her to pack.
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Silence, a defying silence filled the room Knives occupied where Meryl and he sat. It seemed like an eternity since either of them spoke a word. She had sat in that simple wooden chair since it had happened. I might have been a simple little touch but it seemed to mean so much more.
Meryl kept looking around the room nowhere in particular, but there was one place she shied away from, the strong face of the man sitting in the bed beside her. His touch before had caught her off guard, but what really frightened her was how it had made her feel. Where his slender ginger graced her milky skin her flesh was on fire. It was so new, so different form any touch she had felt before and if terrified her. It wasn't supposed to fell like that. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Meryl loved Vash it was plan and simple but was it so plain and simple. Vash was fallowing Marvel around like a lost puppy. It as like nothing was more important to him then pleasing that unappeasable woman.
"How long are you going to sit there not saying a word? We could sit like this al day. I don't mind. " Her eyes glanced up to meet his only to drop the her hands once more. It was only for a moment but Meryl knew he would see the truth in her eyes.
"I'm sorry I just don't fell like talking today I guess." Knives smiled and even know she wasn't looking Meryl could feel it.
"You never really have, unless you count yelling at me and forcing food down my throat. But recently you've been a little more inclined to open up ant treat me like a person."
"You think you're a person! You're not Knives you're a monster!" He temper flared it was starting to finely break her down all of this, everything. The last thing she needed was the tiny feeling in the back of her mind a feeling she didn't want. "You don't deserve any of this any of us you don't deserve…"
"Vash… That's what I don't deserve right a brother like Vash. What makes you think you do?"
"Stop it!" Meryl covered her ears trying to stop the nonsense flowing for Knives mouth but he just invaded her mind.
*What makes you so deserving of my brothers attention? What makes you better than me? *
"I've never killed any one! I don't want to hurt people! I DON'T THINK I'M A GOD! I'm just…" It finely hit her she understood "just normal. There's nothing special at all about me." Teas slid down that beautiful face "I'm just a nobody."
Some thing broke inside Meryl. She was bleeding on the inside her heart crushed under the weight of the weight of all the pain. Left alone by the people that she cared for the most the small woman had no one to latch on to and she was drowning in the sorrow of her loneliness.
A strong hand slid over Meryl cheeks and rested there. Rising her face to look into his eyes. Knives had moved to the edge of the bed in front of the fragile young woman. He smiled his finger searing touch on her soft right cheeks skin.
"No you're just a diamond in the ruff." He slid forward smoothly till she could fell his hot breath on her ear. "Just let me show you I promise I mean no harm I just want to repay you for taking such good care of me when I could not do it my self."
The doorknob wiggled just a bit at first then it clicked wildly as some one became ruff with it.
"Hey Meryl are you in there? It's Vash I have something important to tell you! Come on open up in there!"
Knives slid back to his laying positions quickly as Meryl eyes grew large with fear.
"Go let him in Meryl"
'Oh…Um..I'm coming just give me a moment!" Quickly standing she moved towards the door. Unlocking it she let the giddy man in.
"Guess what I'm going on a trip with Marvel. Isn't that great! She really didn't want me to come but I convinced her, so I didn't really convince her but if I just fallow her there's really nothing she can do right?" Vash's happy expression faded after looking down at the woman standing before him. "Meryl what's wrong? You're not even listening to me."
"Vash can I speak to you outside." Walking out she didn't even look in his face.
"What's up? You seem to be acting strange." Shyly he rubbed the fingers through the little hairs at the nape of his neck.
"Vash I have something to tell you and It's really import to tell you alright."
"Sure what is it?"
"Vash I...I…Vash I love you." Meryl's legs gave way and a strong pair of arms enveloped her.
Vash hugged Meryl's petite farm to his much lager one. "Meryl… I" He couldn't do it he couldn't tell her it would rip her apart. "I…"
"Vash you what I have to know. Tell me how you fell!" Her small hands griped his shoulders.
"Meryl I…" A sound started him. It was a backwards footstep at the end of the hall. Looking up the disturbances origin became all to clear to him. Marvel stood near the stairs an unreadable look on her face.
Stepping back Marvel tried to escape with out notice from the couple standing together in the hall. She was coming up to finish the last bit of packing when Vash and Meryl stepped into the hall. Raising her hand about to greet them she noticed something was just not right. An embrace a confession of love all that was left was his confession back. It was so unbearable a hasty escape was necessary but alas her boot made a soft click on the wooden floor. Her eves meet the aqua of Vash's.
"Marvel." His lips whispered her name lightly but Marvel's sensitive ears caught the sound of her name passing through his lips.
Meryl herd him too. She faced to woman behind her but noticed Marvel's eyes did not meet her gaze but looked past her. Looking back at Vash she saw his eyes doing the same. The two were captured in a longing gaze trying to communicate with their eyes their true feelings.
Hugging herself Marvel walked past the two and entered her room down the hall. Vash looked at Meryl one more.
"Meryl you remind me of a woman I lost a long time ago. She was the most wonderful person I have ever met. She taught me everything I know about how to live. I loved he like my mother and she was really important to me. Meryl you remind me Rem and I loved her but not like you love me."
Tears welled up in Meryl's gray eyes. She just wanted to give him on last chance to change her fading realty. But he couldn't change his heart and it didn't belong to her. She though he would save her from the dark abyss she was rapidly being pulled towards.
"I love Marvel Meryl. I don't know what it is about her but when I touch her it just feel fight. So don't cry I promise never to let anything hurt you and I would protect you with my life but I can't love you like that." Wrapping her up in his arms again he hugged he close. Now how about I help you lay down. I think you need a nap things have been crazy lately.
Sliding an arm under Meryl's knees he lifted her into his arms carrying her off then lying her down in her room.
"Now get some rest I'm gonna check on you later and I want to you awake and shining face, ok?"
The door closed behind him. Meryl lying on her side she pulled he knees to her chest hugging them. No more tears touched he skins, as the fragile woman became a dead shell pulling herself inside he mind with her thoughts.
* No you're just a diamond in the ruff *
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Road trip! Marvel And Vash leave on a trip through the desert to visit Marvel's 'family'. Don't worry they're just as embarrassing as a real one. Knives also moves in on his plan to corrupt a certain someone.
Show me some love and Review. Pretty pleas with sugar on top.
My thanks go out to!
WW ^ I'm working on the Knives Meryl moments. I didn't know they would become so popular. So expect more in up coming chapters.
Morlana ^ I love the Vash/ Marvel purring but I wrote it so I had better like. I know Marvel's well for lack of better word a bitch but she's soft under it all. The K/M things about to blow up and get really interesting so stay tuned.
swtrkgurlz ^ Vash is really in La La land right now but he's about to get a dose of reality in this chapter. Whether he will take it or not is another story.
Arika* ^ Thank you for giving me the so needed love I'm starting to feel it a little more. Just for you I put some K/M in this chapter…well and because it was in the plot.
Lunatic Jedi ^ Oh I love evil schemes! They're great…Maybe I should put one in the story! Wait a minute! I always love getting reviews form you! It makes me happy.!
Jill ^ I try to get better as I go along. This is my first Trigun story so it is one big experiment.
Nuclear Pudding ^ What would a chapter be without a review from Nuclear? It would be a sad, sad chapter! I hope I don't have any of those any time soon.
So I got more Love then usual but some of my regulars were missing! Hey come back and read I miss YOU!
Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun! Because If I did Wolfwood and Legato would still be alive!
Kaleidoscope
Chapter 12: Confession
"Hey Marvel this telegram come for you!" Vash waved the paper envelope in the air.
"Give it to me you ass!" She snatched it away form the overexcited out law only to find the seal had already been broken. "Did you my letter!?"
"If I did will I pay with Pain?" With a growl Marvel flopped down on the bed next to him.
"I don't even know why I put up with you!"
"It's my charisma and charm." His voice was smooth like silk and he gave a dangerously hansom smile.
At first she blushed at his attics, her was just adorable. She realized her shown weakness and grabbed the back of his head thrusting his whole body towards the floor.
"Tough love is painful. You know the longer I know you the more pissed off you seem to be."
"Hush I trying to read this." Vash crawled back on the bed and sat down next to her. She fallowed the lines with her eyes reading every word. "It's just a letter From the Taylor family. They herd about my attack yesterday and they want me to come back to the house to make sure I'm ok. When ever they find out something happened to me they want me to come home to make sure that I'm fine."
"Home" His eyebrow rose. "I thought this was your home?"
"It is. I guess it's like when you move away from you parents. Your home is home but so is theirs." With big glossy eyes Vash Smiled at the glaring woman. "What's that look for?"
"They're your family and you love them!"
"Oh stop looking at me like that! Come on stop it I'm serious!" The look on his face finally made Marvel give int. She began to roll with laughter. "Come on Vash I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts!"
"I know isn't it great!" He fallowed her lead and the two became laughing fools.
After a small knock at the door Nicholas peek his head through to see what all the commotion was about. "Hey what's going on in here?!"
"We're going to visit Marvel's family!"
"Yeah we're…we're what? You're not going with me!" Marvel jumped up looming over Vas with a menacing face.
"Sure I am! Who else is going to protect you?"
"Protect me? If you haven't noticed I CAN PROTECT MYSELF! Now she was down right furious.
"Well then I'll go to protect everyone else form you. I'll start packing!" Vash leapt up and rushed picking up his things.
Marvel sighed ad looked at Wolfwood leaning up against the wall. "He only hears what he wants to doesn't he"
"Yep, he's always been that way."
Vash continued to zip around collecting thing he might need on his trip. "Come on Marvel don't you need to pack?" He yanked his female companion by the arm pulling her with him urging her to pack.
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Silence, a defying silence filled the room Knives occupied where Meryl and he sat. It seemed like an eternity since either of them spoke a word. She had sat in that simple wooden chair since it had happened. I might have been a simple little touch but it seemed to mean so much more.
Meryl kept looking around the room nowhere in particular, but there was one place she shied away from, the strong face of the man sitting in the bed beside her. His touch before had caught her off guard, but what really frightened her was how it had made her feel. Where his slender ginger graced her milky skin her flesh was on fire. It was so new, so different form any touch she had felt before and if terrified her. It wasn't supposed to fell like that. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Meryl loved Vash it was plan and simple but was it so plain and simple. Vash was fallowing Marvel around like a lost puppy. It as like nothing was more important to him then pleasing that unappeasable woman.
"How long are you going to sit there not saying a word? We could sit like this al day. I don't mind. " Her eyes glanced up to meet his only to drop the her hands once more. It was only for a moment but Meryl knew he would see the truth in her eyes.
"I'm sorry I just don't fell like talking today I guess." Knives smiled and even know she wasn't looking Meryl could feel it.
"You never really have, unless you count yelling at me and forcing food down my throat. But recently you've been a little more inclined to open up ant treat me like a person."
"You think you're a person! You're not Knives you're a monster!" He temper flared it was starting to finely break her down all of this, everything. The last thing she needed was the tiny feeling in the back of her mind a feeling she didn't want. "You don't deserve any of this any of us you don't deserve…"
"Vash… That's what I don't deserve right a brother like Vash. What makes you think you do?"
"Stop it!" Meryl covered her ears trying to stop the nonsense flowing for Knives mouth but he just invaded her mind.
*What makes you so deserving of my brothers attention? What makes you better than me? *
"I've never killed any one! I don't want to hurt people! I DON'T THINK I'M A GOD! I'm just…" It finely hit her she understood "just normal. There's nothing special at all about me." Teas slid down that beautiful face "I'm just a nobody."
Some thing broke inside Meryl. She was bleeding on the inside her heart crushed under the weight of the weight of all the pain. Left alone by the people that she cared for the most the small woman had no one to latch on to and she was drowning in the sorrow of her loneliness.
A strong hand slid over Meryl cheeks and rested there. Rising her face to look into his eyes. Knives had moved to the edge of the bed in front of the fragile young woman. He smiled his finger searing touch on her soft right cheeks skin.
"No you're just a diamond in the ruff." He slid forward smoothly till she could fell his hot breath on her ear. "Just let me show you I promise I mean no harm I just want to repay you for taking such good care of me when I could not do it my self."
The doorknob wiggled just a bit at first then it clicked wildly as some one became ruff with it.
"Hey Meryl are you in there? It's Vash I have something important to tell you! Come on open up in there!"
Knives slid back to his laying positions quickly as Meryl eyes grew large with fear.
"Go let him in Meryl"
'Oh…Um..I'm coming just give me a moment!" Quickly standing she moved towards the door. Unlocking it she let the giddy man in.
"Guess what I'm going on a trip with Marvel. Isn't that great! She really didn't want me to come but I convinced her, so I didn't really convince her but if I just fallow her there's really nothing she can do right?" Vash's happy expression faded after looking down at the woman standing before him. "Meryl what's wrong? You're not even listening to me."
"Vash can I speak to you outside." Walking out she didn't even look in his face.
"What's up? You seem to be acting strange." Shyly he rubbed the fingers through the little hairs at the nape of his neck.
"Vash I have something to tell you and It's really import to tell you alright."
"Sure what is it?"
"Vash I...I…Vash I love you." Meryl's legs gave way and a strong pair of arms enveloped her.
Vash hugged Meryl's petite farm to his much lager one. "Meryl… I" He couldn't do it he couldn't tell her it would rip her apart. "I…"
"Vash you what I have to know. Tell me how you fell!" Her small hands griped his shoulders.
"Meryl I…" A sound started him. It was a backwards footstep at the end of the hall. Looking up the disturbances origin became all to clear to him. Marvel stood near the stairs an unreadable look on her face.
Stepping back Marvel tried to escape with out notice from the couple standing together in the hall. She was coming up to finish the last bit of packing when Vash and Meryl stepped into the hall. Raising her hand about to greet them she noticed something was just not right. An embrace a confession of love all that was left was his confession back. It was so unbearable a hasty escape was necessary but alas her boot made a soft click on the wooden floor. Her eves meet the aqua of Vash's.
"Marvel." His lips whispered her name lightly but Marvel's sensitive ears caught the sound of her name passing through his lips.
Meryl herd him too. She faced to woman behind her but noticed Marvel's eyes did not meet her gaze but looked past her. Looking back at Vash she saw his eyes doing the same. The two were captured in a longing gaze trying to communicate with their eyes their true feelings.
Hugging herself Marvel walked past the two and entered her room down the hall. Vash looked at Meryl one more.
"Meryl you remind me of a woman I lost a long time ago. She was the most wonderful person I have ever met. She taught me everything I know about how to live. I loved he like my mother and she was really important to me. Meryl you remind me Rem and I loved her but not like you love me."
Tears welled up in Meryl's gray eyes. She just wanted to give him on last chance to change her fading realty. But he couldn't change his heart and it didn't belong to her. She though he would save her from the dark abyss she was rapidly being pulled towards.
"I love Marvel Meryl. I don't know what it is about her but when I touch her it just feel fight. So don't cry I promise never to let anything hurt you and I would protect you with my life but I can't love you like that." Wrapping her up in his arms again he hugged he close. Now how about I help you lay down. I think you need a nap things have been crazy lately.
Sliding an arm under Meryl's knees he lifted her into his arms carrying her off then lying her down in her room.
"Now get some rest I'm gonna check on you later and I want to you awake and shining face, ok?"
The door closed behind him. Meryl lying on her side she pulled he knees to her chest hugging them. No more tears touched he skins, as the fragile woman became a dead shell pulling herself inside he mind with her thoughts.
* No you're just a diamond in the ruff *
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Road trip! Marvel And Vash leave on a trip through the desert to visit Marvel's 'family'. Don't worry they're just as embarrassing as a real one. Knives also moves in on his plan to corrupt a certain someone.
Show me some love and Review. Pretty pleas with sugar on top.